Now that our 1080p high res­o­lu­tion trailer is out on Yahoo, it’s time for 70 odd high res­o­lu­tion screen­shots that pick out the key parts of the trailer:

The Fallen

Arcee

Screen­shots

UPDATE: Final Trans­form­ers 2 Trailer released in HD (30th April 2009)
See also our in depth analy­sis of the trailer with high qual­ity screen­shots of all the key scenes, robots and Megan Fox.

Orig­i­nal Post

View it at Yahoo Movies or below via YouTube:

While we wait for the offi­cial high qual­ity ver­sion of the trailer, Behind the Films have pro­vided a much cleaner, watch­able ver­sion, although still recorded in a cin­ema. The constructicon’s trans­for­ma­tion, The Fallen at the pyra­mids and Scor­ponok are all much eas­ier to make out in this copy:

Jalop­nik have posted a gallery of Bumblebee’s Camaro, Sideswipe’s Stingray and Skid’s Trax con­cept car all in a glo­ri­ous res­o­lu­tion. No close­ups of the Beat (to be renamed Spark for production).

The names were offi­cially con­firmed by GM ear­lier this week:

SIDESWIPE – a styl­ized Corvette vision con­cept vehi­cle
SKIDS and MUDFLAP – twin AUTOBOTS® based on Chevy’s Beat (a con­cept that will go into pro­duc­tion as the Chevy Spark in 2011) and Trax con­cepts
JOLT – an AUTOBOT-based on Chevy’s upcom­ing Volt extended-range elec­tric vehi­cle
BUMBLEBEE™, the heroic AUTOBOT based on Chevrolet’s Camaro con­cept from the first “Trans­form­ers” movie, returns with a high-performance atti­tude. Join­ing the vehi­cles on stage will be BUMBLEBEE in his AUTOBOT form, stand­ing almost 17 feet (5.2 meters) tall and 13 feet (4 meters) wide.

Stingray at the Auto Show

GM’s pre­sen­ta­tion at Auto Show

And the offi­cial unveil­ing of the Stingray con­cept car

A video review of the Mega­tron FAB toy, show­ing its tank alt mode — ‘he rolls, he shoots his cannon’:

Jolt FAB Video Review

It’s Fri­day 13th and our Trans­form­ers 2 trailer has arrived, in grainy low qual­ity YouTube format:

(Another copy, and another (thanks Brian))

Not as hard hit­ting as the Super­bowl teaser was in terms of the wow that’s huge fac­tor, this trailer has more of the slowly-building up and impend­ing doom feeling.

Key points high­lighed by NightShade87 over at TLAMB:

Here are some key points in the video that I sug­gest tak­ing a closer look at. I’ve pro­vided the times at which some of newer ones occur, and my own thoughts as well).
– The begin­ning opens up in France (notice the Eif­fel tower in the back­ground) and two proto­forms are seen falling out of the sky (in broad day­light no less) and one strikes a build­ing.
– Switches to show the pyra­mids and air­craft carrier-It then looks like there may be a total of 4? proto­forms land­ing in Egypt.
– Then we go back to scene of the air­craft car­rier, which is sunk by more proto­forms (if I counted 6 in this shot, that would make a grand total of 12 proto­forms caus­ing some kind of destruc­tion, whether intended or not.)
– At 0:55 you can very clearly see one of the three Arcee cars that is chas­ing the Audi that just jumped through a build­ing. (It looks to be a pur­ple bike to me, but that could just be the light. And Boo was right; it does look like she’s some type of uni­cy­cle, or at least a third of her robot form.)-We get to see a semi-full trans­for­ma­tion for the RH-400 and Bay wasn’t lying when he said that thing was huge!-Sam again tells his dad to run, but then Ron gives his own idea of what they should do.
– At 1:18 you see Sam tak­ing apart a mechan­i­cal bug, though I don’t know exactly what type (some­thing with wings. I also thought I saw a minia­ture satel­lite on there, but not sure)
– At 1:28 we finally see Bum­ble­bee for the first time. He’s trans­form­ing in what looks like the Witwicky’s back­yard in plain view of Sam’s dad in broad day­light. He then shoots at some­thing off screen.
– At 1:33 we get the first notice of Scor­pinok in Egypt it looks like, jump­ing at another robot. Can’t tell who at this point. But very pointy edges. Starscream? The Audi? Jet­fire?
– 1:38. I think that this is our first very dis­torted but nonethe­less glimpse of what the Fallen looks like. I’m only say­ing that because numer­ous spots on the body look like they’re glow­ing red (indi­ca­tion of flames?)
– Much of the rest has already been shown, except for start­ing at 1:47, which gives us a dif­fer­ent angle on Opti­mus approach­ing [the Con­struc­ti­con]. You can see him slid­ing a few sec­onds later much like he did when fight­ing Bonecrusher on the high­way in the first movie. All in all, I think this whets the appetite pretty nicely for TF fans. Sorry about the qual­ity and the shak­i­ness of the video.

A short video inter­view with GM Vice Pres­i­dent of Global Design, Ed Wel­burn show­ing some quick-zooming fade-in fade-out footage of the sta­tion­ary Auto­bots at the Chicago Auto show:

As part of the Trans­form­ers 2 Chevy pro­mo­tion a video show­cas­ing the Chevy Trax, Chevy Beat, Chevy Volt, Corvette Cen­ten­nial, Bum­ble­bee, Opti­mus Prime and Iron­hide has been released. It shows the vehi­cles rolling in for­ma­tion around the roads of Long Beach and in front of the pyra­mids in Egypt:

Via Jalop­nik
YouTube ver­sion after break.

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